This might seem a really weird and unnecessarily complicated thing to do, but I'm wondering if anyone's ever hired builders from another country to come and do renovation or building work in the UK? Or has anyone been on the other side - come to the UK to do some temporary work?
I'm asking because we've always had by far the best results using builders from Poland and Eastern Europe. They did things to a really high standard, worked unbelievably hard to get the job done as quickly as possible (we were living with small children in a building site, so this was much appreciated ...). They also were always willing to work with us to find a way to do things that might have been awkward but not impossible (eg. figure out a creative way to get a waste pipe installed in a difficult corner so we could fit a cabinet into a tiny bathroom), compared to other builders who came to quote, who'd just roll their eyes and say 'nope, too difficult'. We used to live down south where there were plenty of eastern European building firms, but we had to move to Scotland and there just don't seem to be any Polish builders up here (Brexit hasn't helped, obviously).
So ... are we mad to consider this? Has anyone got it to work? Recommendations and/or practicalities to consider? We aren't trying to get it on the cheap - will pay proper rates & VAT and the rest of it - we would just like the same attention to detail and yes-we-can-work-with-you-rather-than-telling-you-it-can't-be-done approach that so far the other builders who've come to do minor jobs haven't shown at all. We'd also consider a firm of eastern European builders based in the UK who might come up to Scotland from London, but that actually seems less likely than a team of builders coming in from eastern Europe to do a project, have a change of scene, and then go home.